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Yes my system has wowed me many times, but I think I’m just accustomed to it now. My only recent upgrades have been regarding my vinyl playback. A new TT and pre amp. I’ve been pretty blown away by how good such an inferior and old technology can sound, it’s so full of life and energy with real...

I made a similar remark to this on another thread here, which was titled “The ingredients of good sound”. I basically said I found imaging to be overrated and immediately a can of condescending worms was opened. For me imaging is at the bottom of the list on the important aspects of audio to...

Did we? I must have missed that.

What hum? Equipment on with no music playing, amplifier up to full volume and ear to the speakers - Nothing at all to be heard…

What I find interesting is how modern movies and shows are mixed for theatre with big dynamic range where the experience is considered important, but most modern music is mixed and produced for portable audio with severely compressed dynamic range where the experience is considered bottom of the...

Thank you, I appreciate you getting the gist of what I’ve said without feeling the need to nitpick. I agree with you, that yes just moving your head by a small amount can very much break the illusion. Also yes what I’ve been saying can also apply to other topics where audiophiles can and do...

Thanks I’ll check those links out when I get a chance.

Not annoyed in the slightest. It seems to me that everyone else is because I made one comment and said imaging is overrated in my opinion. There is no confusion or confliction, just an attempt at trying to justify said opinion because others (not me) have latched onto it.

Are you the pot or the kettle? Ok so you say it’s an analogy, when you said your system changes the acoustics of your room like a holodeck, maybe so. I say it’s an over the top play on words and not an accurate description. Which has been my point all along. It’s such analogies which over play...

Probably the same reason why it’s so hard for you to understand anything I’ve said. Your quote of your system feeling like a ‘holodeck‘ and being able to defy the laws of physics from your listening position is exactly the type of overhyped audiophiliea I’ve been talking about. Yet you...

Hmm…

To be fair, I wasn’t looking for agreement or discussion on the subject. I originally responded to the OP regarding what they had mentioned regarding imaging. I’m not trying to be funny here, words on a screen can be miss interpreted. However the only reason I’ve had to go to such elaborate...

Someone else who miss understands what I’ve said. To summarise at no point have I said my system isn’t capable of good imaging. I’ve said that in my opinion imaging is overhyped. I have also said most audiophiles (and I’ll now go further and also include most subjective journalists) overstate...

You now at least see what I’m driving at. You might say it’s a strawman idea of imaging, but reading a lot of audiophile BS over the years really would have you try and believe in this impossible illusion. I think the way some audiophiles articulate sound is to do so by overhyping it and making...

I’ll put it this way... The next time you hear a vocal between and behind your speakers, move from your sweet spot and stand or sit with your head 6” or 12” from one either one of your speakers and listen to where are the vocals are then. I’d imagine that they are coming straight out of your...

I think my previous comments within this thread sum up what I’m getting at. If what I’ve said makes no sense to you, there’s not much else I can add. I’ve covered what I consider imaging to be and what is possible for it to be. It’s there in what I’ve said previously in this thread. I see no...

Does anyone here experience this phenomena? Apologies if this is the wrong section to post this. I do and always have done, I always used to believe everyone else must do when I was young - until I realised I was actually in the minority for this. I wonder if audiophiles are more likely to...

I still buy CDs new and used. The used CD market is absolutely tremendous right now as it’s not fashionable anymore, real bargains can be had. Albums for around £2 and perfect playback what’s not to like? Play them and/or rip them. I don’t buy vinyl often, when I do it’s mostly used for early...

Good post. The main point I’m trying to really make which perhaps isn‘t coming across, is that music is mixed and recorded to left and right channels. We play it back with left and right channels. Everything making up a soundstage is coming from a combination of the left speaker and the right...

No, again you are picking a specific sentence without taking into account the context around it and the rest of the paragraph that I typed, but hey ho!